Doctor Who Google Doodle in the UK

I’ve been told, and have verified it, that Google UK has a special interactive Google Doodle today honoring the 50th anniversary of the first episode of “Doctor Who”. (Because it’s also the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, I assume it’s not on the Google US site out of respect.) The doodle is in fact is a game in which you can rack up and post high scores.

I never watched Doctor Who, but I know we have a lot of fans here, so if you’re interested in playing the game, go here and knock yourself out. (The rules are here). A screenshot:

Don’t you just love what Matt Smith brought to the character? At first I didn’t like him; he was hard to understand. But there he is, almost like a cartoon himself, in his movements and reactions. I love the way he slides around and gestures with his whole body. Just watched “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship”. The sense of glee on his face at that adventure was a delight to watch.

Yeah, you always think the new doctor is never going to be as good as the old doctor but then you are surprised. I remember how hostile people were toward Matt Smith before they saw him in the role because #10 was a hard act to follow. Everyone came around after they saw him though!

I agree also. I am looking forward to seeing how the new one, Peter Capaldi, will do since I still remember his strong performance in Local Hero. I wonder if he will use his Scottish accent or soften it up like David Tennant.

Hah! Great kid. I can’t wait for mine to be old enough to join me in watching Doctor Who. As much I enjoy trains, there is a limit to how often on can watch Thomas the Tank Engine… Thank Ceiling Cat he loves watching Attenborough as well.

I have watched many Dr. Who episodes. I would enjoy them enough, but there were a couple particular episodes that really stuck with me. Namely the 1st episode about the stone angels, and the episode about the library *shiver*.
What other episodes really stand out for people?

Turn Left was really clever and I liked Donna as his companion even though many didn’t. I also thought Martha Jones was great and it’s sort of a strange symmetry that in the series she saves the world but no one remembers and as fans of the series, people don’t think of her as much as they do Rose or Donna but I thought she was great, especially because she told The Doctor she wasn’t going to wait around for him so he could have her phone because when she needed him, she would call and he better show up.

I loved both Rose and Martha Jones. Greatly liked Human Nature / Family of Blood where Martha had to hold the whole thing together, and it had that great line from Martha, “And then you had to fall in love with a human. A human who isn’t me”. Huge credit to Martha for realising the Doctor was never going to notice her and dumping him – which she did with style, as you noted.

And Rose – ever notice how visually arresting blonde hair and dark eyebrows are? I liked the ‘Badwolf’ theme – Rose’s signal to herself – and she looked awesome when she used the Time Vortex energy to disintegrate the Daleks.

That one with the DVD Easter eggs was ‘Blink’ which has been mentioned already. How did the Doctor know what questions Sally was going to ask of the DVD? – because Larry was busy scribbling all the questions and answers, which transcript Sally later gave to the Doctor in the present, and which the Doctor had on him when the Weeping Angels zapped him and Martha back to the past. So the Doctor knew exactly what questions Sally was going to ask. It works brilliantly!

Oh how could I forget the Fires of Pompeii. I think that was the name of the episode. If you learned Latin using the Cambridge Latin course like I did (the UK version not the US one) you remember the characters (who really existed) fondly. Everyone wanted to save Caecilius and his family and the Doctor actually did it. You just know the writers had to make that episode to deal with the pain we all did when Caecilius died from the eruption of Vesuvius.

Blink (the one you mention about the Weeping Angels) is probably my favourite. It has a complex time-travel plot that actually hangs together perfectly when you think it through, but also, all the characters are beautifully written & acted.

The Girl in the Fireplace is also a delight, but with a very sad ending.

I’m very disappointed. I thought on this of all days the doodle was going to be an animated depiction of JFK’s head exploding and his brains flying everywhere. That would have been in good taste, right?

Bit late, but I can’t wait for tomorrow either. Did anyone watch An Adventure in Space and Time? I thought it was beautiful. William Hartnell, the first and one of the best in my opinion. Bring on the Day of the Doctor!

In the old serials, it was necessary to generate a cliffhanger every 22 minutes or so, so a certain knack for getting into danger was required, and that knack all too often took the form of foolishness on the part of the Doctor or a companion.

On the other hand, it’s rare to see an adventure show where the protagonists go about their business unarmed, at least most of the time. That, in itself, might be considered poor judgment, but it is refreshing also.

Wow, I hard a ridiculously hard time reading that headline. The fact that google can be a verb and so many words are capitalized really threw me. I figured there must be a typo, but I still wasn’t sure what the doctor who googles was doing, or what doodle in the UK meant. Boy did I feel stupid when it finally clicked.

Don’t normally watch the show but I’m getting unaccountably excited about tonight’s event. British comedian Mitch Benn is an obsessive fan. He does a heartfelt tribute to the BBC (in song) here:- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3q2iZuU5WM
Doctor Who is honoured by 3 references.